drug company funded findings. I suspect he will feel the same about this change.

and am in wretched physical shape... My high blood pressure is legit, baby!

unless a person is into designer meds.

on old established generic drugs. BP meds have been on market for a very long time, have a great success record and haven't been improved upon in years. Now if some company came out with some new flash bang drug with lots of kickbacks and a premium price while at the same time buying off cheap generics to discontinue, I'd agree with you. I'd also agree if the price skyrocketed by 10x.
I don't think my $1 a month Benazapril which is cheaper than Tylanol with or without codeine is filling the pockets of big pharm.

and doctors, in otherwords, educated professionals, not big pharma. I have a huge problem with big pharma but automatically equating science with big pharma schemes is, well... a method used by the other side.

It's OK to disagree.

BTW... who is we?

Not my style though. You just seem to expect an ulterior motive when there's a differing opinion. I personally don't see that as productive.

Learning is a good thing. I can learn from you if it seems reasonable to do so.

As far as "we" is concerned, this is the Internet and there are no "we" here. It's a control device that I'm not too concerned with.

As much as I get the feeling you wish to paint me as a deceiver, that is not the fact but go for it if that meets your criteria for reality.

I really do wish the best for you on your journey. No emoticon necessary.

I personally agree that Big Pharma isn't making much off of ANY generics.

You want to get into what's nuts and was a gigantic giveaway to Big Pharma in the name of the environment, vs the name of stopping the "opioid crisis" (which in many cases translates to "untreated pain and treating chronic pain patients like criminals" already without more paranoid delusions about Purdue making money off of drugs that haven't been on patent for years)?

Stripping use of CFCs from asthma inhalers. They're already proposing removing HFA inhalers, which STILL aren't generic, because of concerns about that propellant.

Do you seriously want to know how much GSK is getting from me just for my Advair Discus (even though the HFA works better my doctor is afraid they'll discontinue it), and how much Boehringer is for my Spriva Respimat (the newest tech to try to make an aerosol that doesn't destroy the ozone layer? How much just plain rescue inhalers, steroid inhalers, various other respiratory inhakers, cost because they aren't generic anymore, which made it cost-effective to even consider making these long-acting versions to replace what had been cheap but 4-6 times a day solutions for patients?

I'll be happy to dig up my Medicare billing records, and gladly show you. For what it's worth, I'm already into catastrophic coverage.

Seriously, that's what they were dinging you on, the use of "we" in that fashion. The idea that you speak for everyone.

You don't.

Edit to add: If you are a DID patient and I am unintentionally being insensitive, sorry.

Isn’t particularly addictive and is sold OTC in most countries. They just don’t sell more than eight at a time (that’s acetaminophen with or without codeine; cuts the suicide rate dramatically).

I realize it seems counterintuitive, but I believe we’d actually see a reduction in opioid addiction with more availability of small amounts of mild opiate pain relievers, such as Tylenol 1 or Tylenol 2. Treat pain more effectively but with milder medications.

Hypertension meds are really, really cheap and the ones that work have been around forever.

With their silly "studies" and "statistics."

We liberals should be embracing science. Conservatives have the anti-science market cornered.

They move the damn goal post.. The good thing is that most BP meds are generic.. From what I've read though is that the meds aren't as effective with Hi BP that's just over the limit..
DASH diet, excersize, meditation, weight reduction,etc work best at around those numbers..
YMMV.
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They're too cheep. Benazapril is one of the cheepest meds on the market. As for the other problems you mentioned, those are separate diagnoses.

of the commonly measured metrics.

People cite studies, but if you dig into them, it is easy to discover that the majority of them are financed by...wait for it...the pharmaceutical and/or diet industries. They are the ones who will profit from this.

I'm guessing that there will be new drugs coming out very soon that will be prescribed rather than generics to ensure continued enormous profits.

Makes me not concentrate on my pork liver sandwich and tater tots.

science is so sneaky! bad science! bad!

I'm confident I can get mine down to zero in the next 50 years or so.

My dad had HBP, then he started running and his BP came way down. Years later, he had an operation for an abdominal aortic anuerysm. After the surgery, I spoke with the vascular surgeon and asked if the HBP had contributed to the anuersym. The surgeon chuckled and said, no, Dad had probably had HBP all of his life, from which I inferred the surgeon meant Dad's body had adjusted to his natural HBP. My bottom line is everyone's body is different and sticking to a rigid standard isn't always the right choice.

My dad passed away (91+) 4.5 years ago from natural causes unrelated to the AAA.

I had him for a long time and he went peacefully.

Would their almost cartoonish hatred for liberals qualify as something that would raise blood pressure?

and the other half will live forever.